T-23 Days Count Down till Thesis Show Opening...

Finally got posters printed!!! 

after 3h of [color correction + power ranger style fighting against the printer + dead car battery because we took so long to print that the emergency light drained the battery...]

so please come! :D

The Mills Gallery of the Boston Center for the Arts
(539 Tremount St. Boston MA 02116)
Gallery Hours: Mon-Wed 12-5p, Thu-Sun 12-9p

Opening: Fri 4/27, 6-8P


Fred Ata
Sarah Hill
Amanda Ingram
Cindy Tsai

7am: on the bus -> NYC
7pm: on the bus -> Boston

one-day trip to new york city during thesis mess:



Tom Friedman @ Luhring Augustine, Chelsea

Armory Pier 92:

2 days after I got back from Taipei (umm... back in January), I was jetlagged and certainly didn't have my act together for this thesis semester, then boom! To avoid the last-minute weekend crowd before the shows closed, there I was, New York City!

Carsen Höller: "Experience" @ New Museum

Maurizio Cattelan: "All" @ Guggenheim

And the good food... :D

Three weeks of Taipei, though I should've stayed for a few more days to celebrate Chinese New Year, still left me feeling loved, spoiled, and ready to RAWWWWR at my last semester here in Boston. Chinese (or Lunar) New Year Celebration is the Christmas-equivalent holiday in Taiwan, though without the trees and gifts; it's when all your families: grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, get together for a series of celebration events. Starting with the New Year's Eve dinner at your grandparents' on your dad's side, followed by the night watch, firecrackers to scare away the monster, red envelope gifting, new year couplets/scrolls decorating, and more eating, then on the 3rd of lunar January, you get in the car, go to Grandparents' on your mom's side, and do everything above, well, most of it, all over again. Having not spent cny in Taiwan for the 12th year, I bet I am missing quite a bit of details in the celebration tradition. I only remember vividly how my grandfather always frowned at the way I held my chopsticks...    

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While I was there, besides getting spoiled and stuffing my face with delicious street food, I also went to a few shows in Taiwan and was recharged with inspiration! 


FIRST STOP: Taipei Fine Arts Museum

1) Ai WeiWei's "Absent"

2) 2011 Taipei Arts Award

One of the work at the Taipei Arts Award exhibition I could really resonate with was a piece by Chun-teng Chu, called "the Foaming Weariness." It's an installation piece of a Ta-Tung traditional rice cooker/steamer, plugged in through a variety of voltage converters, at the verge of boiling over. Ta-Tung rice cooker/steamer is a familiar item in most Taiwanese households, and its smaller version is also a popular must-grab for many Taiwanese students abroad. With this cultural icon and its linear array of voltage converters, Chu conveys his unstable state of mind while trying to adapt and keeping up the pace in England. 

SECOND STOP: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

1) VIDEONALE: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art


THIRD STOP: Kuando Museum of Fine Arts

1) Transjourney - 2012 Future Media Festival